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In legislative procedure, a rider is an additional provision added to a bill or other measure under the consideration by a legislature, which may or may not have much, if any, connection with the subject matter of the bill.
How Veteran Bill Rider Finds Purpose in Helping Soldiers with PTS. A veteran commits suicide every 65 minutes and Bill Rider is on a mission to stop the epidemic. Rider, 73, served in Vietnam in the Marine battalion known as “The Walking Dead.”.
Mar 4, 2021 · In U.S. government, “riders” are bills in the form of additional provisions added to the original versions of bills or resolutions considered by Congress.
May 28, 2018 · A sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps' 1st Battalion, 9th Regiment, Rider served in Khe Sanh in 1968 during a 77-day siege by the North Vietnamese...
RIDERS, LEGISLATIVE, are sections or clauses not germane to the subject matter of a bill that are added by amendment before passage for a specific strategic purpose—namely, that the sentiment favorable to the bill will be sufficient to sweep the whole enactment through the final vote and secure executive approval, even though the proposal ...
In the legislative context, the U.S. Senate glossary describes rider as an “ [i]nformal term for a nongermane amendment to a bill or an amendment to an appropriation bill that changes the permanent law governing a program funded by the bill.”
Jun 11, 2018 · A rider may be attached to a bill in an attempt to sneak through a measure that would not attract majority support if proposed by itself. Sometimes, too, a bill's opponents may attempt to defeat it by adding a controversial rider.
